elizabeth shakman hurd. Author: Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global US
Chicago/Evanston
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You may’ve heard the Northwestern has joined the list of universities striking a “deal” with the Trump regime. Hard to believe we’ve stooped this low.
Here’s why it was a mistake.
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What makes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel unique, one that can’t be captured by ordinary frameworks? It’s as if the two were a single entity — “AmericaIsrael” — which functions like a political religion, argues @eshurd for @newlinesmag.
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“U.S. borders become ambiguous when it comes to Israel: Where does the U.S. end and Israel begin? Where is the border? Is there one?”
U.S. support for Israel functions like a political religion, argues @eshurd for @newlinesmag.
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“It is possible to stand outside the prevailing rhetoric, to escape the rip current that merges Zionism and Americanism. The alternative is easy to find: It is with the heretics and dissidents.” | my latest for @newlinesmag
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“It is possible to stand outside the prevailing rhetoric, to escape the rip current that merges Zionism and Americanism. The alternative is easy to find: It is with the heretics and dissidents.” | @eshurd
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My latest: What makes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel unique? It’s as if the two states were a single entity — “AmericaIsrael” — functioning like an article of faith and producing its own heretics.
newlinesmag.com/argument/ame…
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What makes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel unique, one that can’t be captured by ordinary frameworks? It’s as if the two were a single entity — “AmericaIsrael” — which functions like a political religion, argues @eshurd for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/ame…
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
After crushing dissent, U.S. universities are deepening ties with Israeli academia 972mag.com/us-israeli-academ…
It’s harder and harder for Democratic politicians who want to position themselves as sensible, moderate liberals to defend a country that carries out such grotesque crimes against its stateless and rightless noncitizen subjects. jacobin.com/2025/08/democrat…
“the bigger problem with Antisemitism Here/Now is that its tendentious and simplistic approach to enormously complex histories, including the history of Zionism, is at odds with the mission of the university: to teach, not to indoctrinate.” chronicle.com/newsletter/the…
If we are being extorted, then just say so. But don’t call a stick-up a voluntary agreement, and don’t sell it as a return to the way things were.
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In the second part of their CM conversation, @eshurd and Hannah Strømmen discuss the role of masculinity in far-right movements today and the importance of focusing on affect when studying them.
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The fact that we now have two genocides marks a terrible historical irony. Our vast and varied response to the first genocide…to prevent such a thing from ever happening to us again—must now be understood as one of the causes of the second. toddhasaklowy.substack.com/p…
UVA Jewish Studies professors: Our universities must stop weaponizing antisemitism archive.is/2025.08.03-115121…
Fantastic book. Read my take here. 👇
In part one of this CM Conversation, @eshurd reflects on the various "biblical assemblages" that Hannah Strømmen investigates in _The Bibles of the Far Right_, focusing in particular on the role of "masculine maximalism" across far-right movements today.
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“I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer”, but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June.”theguardian.com/commentisfre…
We call on Northwestern’s leadership to resist the administration’s attack on fundamental democratic principles by refusing to “make a deal” with the administration. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/0…
For Immediate Release:
Northwestern Faculty Group Opposes “Dealmaking” with Lawless Trump Administration sites.google.com/view/theuni…